Emergency Department Care for Older Adults With Cancer
Patients with cancer—especially those aged 75 and older—are more likely to be admitted to the...
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Emergency Medicine
The Impact of Critical Access to Hospitals
A designation of critical access hospital was developed about 20 years ago to help ensure...
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Do You Know the Costs of ED Care?
The relationship between cost efficiencies and quality of care cannot be overstated. Previous...
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Conference Highlights: ACC 2018
By Chris Cole Managing Editor Pros & Cons With Perioperative Beta-Blockers Previous research...
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Conference Highlights: SCCM 2018
Balanced IV Fluids Vs. Saline Few studies have assessed the impact on outcomes of various IV...
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Communication and Integration in Emergency Care: Has Anything Changed in 30 Years?
Thirty years ago, ambulance and emergency medical services (EMS) had shifted from the old “Scoop...
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MACRA: Proceed With Confidence at the Point of Care
We’ve been living in a MACRA world for some time now, and yet most physicians still aren’t...
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Expert-Based Opinions: A Supplement to, Not a Replacement for, Evidence-Based Content
Nationally recognized and highly regarded health systems have a variety of ways to expand the...
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Information Rx: The Missing Piece of Quality Care
The vast majority of healthcare takes place outside of a physician’s office. Consumers often care...
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Conference Highlights: CHEST 2017
Shared Decision Making & Lung Cancer Screening Shared decision-making for lung cancer...
Read MoreBringing 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hands From the Netherlands to Sierra Leone
Dr. Brouwers and a physician friend drove from the Netherlands to Freetown, Sierra Leone with an...
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Calling Responsible Parties to Task for their Role in the Opioid Epidemic
In October 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the opioid epidemic is a public health...
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Comparing Ventilation Approaches for Pneumonia
Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of hospitalization in US, resulting in more than 1...
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Improving Pediatric Asthma Care
The current rate of childhood asthma in the United States is at a historically high 10%, according...
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Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians: Who Fares Better?
Do patient outcomes differ between those treated by male and female physicians? In a...
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Three Effective Ways to Pick Quality Improvement Targets
My first exposure to Lean as a quality improvement (QI) approach was at a well-known automotive...
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Examining Dietary Supplement Use
According to data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, approximately 18% of American...
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Dutch physician Lars Brouwers driving to Africa to deliver 3D printed hands
A physician from the Netherlands is attempting to drive to Sierra Leone in order to set up a...
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Three Ineffective Institutional Approaches to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
In 2012, there were estimates of waste in US healthcare amounting to $750 billion per year, or...
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